How about this!

Last night we saw the most amazing sunset and here is the proof.

We never got the rain we were promised either. Had another early start for us cast off around 9 I walked to the lock and managed to walk the whole 9 without a single grumble. Keep thinking of my waistline and how it should be tiny by now, but needless to say isn’t.

The locks seem to take an age but there was a boat coming down for every lock we came to, so for once things were in our favour. As we came out of the top lock a lady whom we had met at Glascote locks was back on the way down, she shouted that her journey hadn't gone to plan as the canal was too shallow so they were heading back the way they had come. She certainly wasn't joking when she said it was shallow the water level was down about a foot all along the way in fact we were on the bottom in a couple of places. I suppose this is all down to the lack of rain and the fact that the canals aren't dredged any more.

I was chatting to an old guy while we were in lock 2 who was obviously a local and he was telling me that the tap by lock 5 has been leaking for about 3 weeks and I don't mean a drip it is running out. He has reported it to various BW people all to no avail. Also there is no locky in the cottage at the top lock, BW have dispensed with his services although he still lives there. Another casualty of the recession.

We are now back by bridge 24 moored by another boat which broke loose just after we had tied up. We were able to get the boat back in from the middle of the canal with out causing too much chaos.